[Ar-list] Continuing dialog

[Karim Nassar]

> My question is, why do the Machines leave the human minds intact? If indeed
the Machines can run their own programs on human brains, why do they leave the
human "programs" running? Perhaps a human brain is incapable of _not_ running
a human mind? Hmm.

I would say that the machines are particularly interested in the aspects of
the human mind that actually makes us human for their processing needs...
after all, it's trivial to produce hardware that out-performs a human brain in
sheer number-crunching capability, but the non-linear, "leap-of-intuition"
decision-making that the human mind expresses may be particularly useful to
them in their particular processing needs.

Perhaps the Matrix, rather than simply a simulation to keep the mind busy, is
in fact the result of actual processing of data that the machines have the
humans computing? The Matrix itself is actually a side-effect of that
massively-multi-processor computation that functionally resides in the
subconscious minds of the processors... Remember "Lain"?? ^_^

--Karim

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